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High School Radio at WGBK (Photo: J. Waits)
Today is the first annual High School Radio Day and at least 30 high school radio stations are participating in this event designed to raise the profile of high school radio. I plan to tune in to some of my n
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Photo by Nathan Wells, on Flickr It’s mid-May, which means it’s about time for journalism schools to send their army of relatively inexperienced student journalists and recent graduates out into the professional world for a test run. Yep, i
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Semantically, legal codes are smooth, shapeless balls of text. They're programmatically inaccessible, useless to software -- and most people. There's simply nothing on which to get a purchase. As qualitative data, they're inaccessible to quantitative a
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On June 3 of last year, MediaShift published the article "Crisis in Thailand Leads to Net Crackdown, Censorship" on the harassment journalists and netizens faced as political clashes arose in the country.
Many of the comments in a long thread followi
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That a story can give voice to a cause and incite a social movement is an old concept. But at a recent gathering of more than 100 documentary filmmakers, social entrepreneurs and designers, the real question was not whether stories can make change hap
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My post about the demise of Chicago smooth jazz station Smooth 87.7 two weeks ago continues to gather comments lamenting the station’s passing. Many of the commenters express a sentiment like Sandy Kowalski, who writes,
I searched all the chica
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DENVER, Colo. — At the PBS Annual Meeting, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof interviewed actress Meg Ryan during a luncheon presentation on Half the Sky. The Independent Lens two-part documentary, coming in October, is based on t
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WTTW in Chicago is merging its national and local production departments, reports Time Out Chicago media writer Robert Feder. Over the years, WTTW National Productions has produced popular titles including Soundstage, Sneak Previews, The Frugal Gourmet
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DENVER, Colo. — For the first time since 2006, a "Dear Colleague" letter to U.S. Senators requesting continued federal funding for pubcasting has Republican signatures, Pat Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told atte
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New York Public Radio (which comprises WNYC-FM and WQXR-FM), announced today a new partnership with New Jersey's Montclair State University, whose broadcast studios and production facilites will be the new home of New Jersey Public Radio's news divisio
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Susanne Reber, who had left her position as deputy managing editor of investigations at NPR last week, was hired by the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting, CIR announced today.
Reber built and led pioneering investigative units at the
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When it comes to blogging platform Tumblr, Newsweek has always led the pack. The news magazine is at it again — this time posting six alternative, although ultimately rejected, versions of its mildly controversial “First Gay PresidentR
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DENVER, Colo. — Jason Seiken, PBS Interactive chief, told a packed audience at the PBS Annual Meeting that “a magical opportunity will slip through our fingers if we don’t have the courage to change” and fully embrace the potential that video p
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The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education
1. Students with computer science degrees are in high demand this year (Bloomberg)
2. Libraries in this county are buying, not leasing, e-books (Boing Boing)
3. Tax increase co
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In the wake of Vice President Biden and President Obama talking about same sex marriage, NPR took a timeout to evaluate its coverage. Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos writes:"A review of all NPR's shows in the eight days after Vice President Joe Bide
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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.
1. Former head of Murdoch U.K. newspaper empire faces charges in hacking scandal (NYT)
2. Facebook bumps up its share price (Washington Post)
3. Should This America
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DENVER, Colo. — At the PBS Annual Meeting today (May 15), Chief Programmer John Wilson answered a question many programmers had been asking lately: What are PBS's plans for 8 p.m. Sundays?
Beginning in September, that spot will go to a Brit hit, C
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"Radio Ambulante," an ambitious monthly radio show and podcast which hopes to revolutionize Spanish-language radio, launched its pilot episode today.
Radio Ambulante (which roughly translates to "radio on the move") is the brainchild of acclaimed P
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Regional magazines sometimes feel like an exclusive club that you can’t get into unless you’re a local. But for the Chicago edition of Time Out, writers from beyond the Windy City are welcome to send in their stories, including music and concert r
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Headed out for an interview? Transom Story Workshop's Rob Rosenthal provides a handy checklist of things to do before you even ask your first question.
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Years ago, the wonderful Walt Harrington came to our newsroom and fired us up.
We were at the start of a storytelling revival, trying to find our way back to craft, and Walt’s book “Intimate Journalism” had just been published.
In the book, Wal
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In Africa, where mobile news and digital innovation are growing but startup capital is too often scarce, innovators have a unique opportunity to help reinvent media: the African News Innovation Challenge.
The newly launched contest, modeled on the Kni
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by Joy Loving, PBS InteractiveCongratulations to this year’s PBS Digital Future Scholarship winners: Julianne Lamsek, Teresa Peltier, Kathy Smith, and Nathan Gibbs. Each recipient was nominated by their local PBS Member Station.The scholarship winner
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Traditional media organizations cover big cases, and they do it well. Part of what's neat about streaming normal courtroom proceedings as a part of OpenCourt's efforts is being present for the interesting hearings that would otherwise fall through th
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Lured in by the debut appearance of Howard Stern as a judge, I watched both hours of tonight’s season premiere of America’s Got Talent. I’ve never watched the show before, nor any of its stablemates, like American Idol. So let’
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by Edward Schumacher-Matos
Since President Barack Obama announced last
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According to a report in Radio World, CBC Radio, Canada's public broadcaster, has just launched a full slate of free online radio stations in an effort to diversify its online music offerings.
The 40 stations are organized by genre (classical, jazz,
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This post and infographic originally appeared on the Nielsen blog Nielsen Wire here. It is reused here with permission.
Moms are often at the center of their family's offline life, so it's little surprise that they're also at the center of many of the
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CBC Radio is launching 40 Web and mobile radio stations. Available for free at music.cbc.ca, the stations offer music feeds organized by genre: classical, jazz, singer-songwriter, world, rock, pop, blues, R&B/soul, hip hop, International Women’s
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